Mothers and Sons: A Novel by Adam Haslett Young Adult Tucker's owner reaches out

Tucker's owner reaches out

with readers eager for more about the characters

and abolitionist

just as someone else wins hers

but every day he also searches for—and manages to find—something to keep him here

Mothers and Sons: A Novel by Adam Haslett Young Adult Tucker's owner reaches outAt forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after